Gouna (beetle)
Gouna is a genus of monkey beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. These species are found in South Africa.
Description
Members of the genus Gouna are relatively small, with adults less that 1 centimetre in length. Originally, for the two species first described, Péringuey, 1902 emphasises white bands of scales on various parts, especially the pronotum and the elytra.Gouna was placed in the "Gymnoloma genus group" by Dombrow, Colville & Bowie, 2022. These authors distinguished Gouna by their eight-segmented antenna, in contrast to others including the comparatively speciose genus Amblymelanoplia where the antennae is nine-segmented in nearly all species. From the remainder of Amblymelanoplia and other genera of the "Gymnoloma genus group", Gouna were further distinguished by their slender legs - especially the metathoracic femur, their metathoracic tibia with a spur, and notably that the elytra of Gouna have a squamose pattern.